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  Lifespan of Watchtower Teaching?

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  lifespan of watchtower teaching?.

  today i added a new article to my blog showing a snapshot in time of what might be a revelation of whats to come of watchtower doctrines of today.

  its short and its telling.

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  andys

  And all the people gathered togetherd and burned all the books......................................................................
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  JWs Could Learn A Lot from the First Baptist Church

  by jamiebowers in

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  the other day i found a red plastic bag hanging on the knob of our exterior door.

  it contained a calendar with beautiful landscape scenes and scriptures for every month of the year.

  i'm not a bible believer, but i hung up the calendar because of the pretty pictures.

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  Ding... If the WT did up calendars for field service, each month's picture would probably feature a different scene of destruction at Armageddon...

  If you go on E-bay right now there is a calendar that the Watchtower made in 1938 of Armagedon but says on e-bay listing the calendar pages are missing but shows the first cover of the calendar: 1938 Calendar Art Armageddon Watchtower Jehovahs Witnesses
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  30 and Out?

  by Black Man in

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  30 that seems to put jw's at a cross-roads?

  i've known so many who have decided to abandon ship at either the age of 30 or either after 30 years of being baptized.

  i fall into the former category.

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  andys

  Its been almost 2 years ago, I was 32 now am 34 years old, growing up in the JW religion I believed everything they taught but at the same time hated every minute of it, then in Feb. of 2011 after reading only 88 pages of Crisis of Conscience I woke up all in one night the light bulb came on, I was flooded with all these thoughts and knew that everything I was taught all my life was a lie, right away off the bat I realized that there was not going to be a paradise and I would not live forever, that was the major one that took me some time to accept that I am not going to be around forever.

  Fast forward to 2012, I am 100% out mentally, also since I have accpeted that theres not going to be a paradise and live forever I value everything I do more because there is only once that I will be able to live on this earth, also I am alot more happier, also I have found a church that I go to but also I keep an open mind, at the same time I'll go out and party on some weekends just have fun I love being on the dance floor, thats one of my most biggest therapys and escapes is dancing the night away at a nightclub where I go.

  Overall I do believe in God and am a happy Christian but also I beleive that God wants all of us to go out and have fun.
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  "There will be earthquakes..." Show this site to JW's and watch their faces

  by Terry in

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  http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/.

  http://earthquakes.tafoni.net/.

  http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/epic/.

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  andys

  I have an earthquake app on my cell phone, very nice app
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  Is Your Life In Ruins Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness?

  by minimus in

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  are you moving on?.

  i see some have a very hard time in life because of their witness past..

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  Yes it is but I am picking up the pieces, the pain that this religion has caused me is beyond any other hurt, I have been through relationship breakups, deaths in the family but this has been the most top hardest hurt, I live in the same town as my parents, and sister and also my sister is married to an elder, some of the things they have done to shun me, when I left I would get followed around by the elder that my sister is married to, then my sister brought everything over to my apartment that had my name on it that I left at my parents house, they were all trying to forget about me by getting my name out of their house, and then recently my sister told me at work that my brother Randy and his wife were visiting here in Montana but they never made an effort to visit me, its just hurts all the crap they have to pull, also I will post another post how I deal with all this have to get ready for work.................................
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  Celebrating Christmas?????

  by DATA-DOG in

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  i am just curious, and not judging.

  if you are a christian and you know that december 25th is not jesus' birthday, and may have pagan roots, then why celebrate it?

  i was raised a dub as most of you know, and have learned the ttatt so i know how wrong they are about a lot.

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  Yes I celebrate all the holidays, it helps alot with the pain of leaving the borg, am looking foward to Christmas, also when I celebrated thanksgiving it was at one of my co-workers house and also some of my other coworkers was alot of fun sitting around playing boardgames this is what brings families/friends together is the holidays
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  Well we can shoot down one rumor - the 2013 district conventions are officially 3 days long...

  by sir82 in

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  ...according to a letter to all boes dated 11/11/2012.. there is nothing new or different (or interesting!

  ) in the letter.

  same stuff as has been covered over the past 20+ years.. .

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  They are held where I live so see if its 3 days here......................................................
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  Home Based Business?

  by sandy in

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  do any of you have a home based business?

  how did you get started?

  i was just on the radio talk show host, dr. laura website and she has a link their to home based businesses.

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  I am a small business owner and it does take work, when I moved to Montana I started an antique glassware business from my parents basement, they needed to figure out a way how to sell all their antique glassware, I setup an online store to help them out, since I moved out of my parents house I no longer have the antique glassware but keep the business going, I now let other people sell their glassware off my website and eventually I plan on buying glassware again to sell, also I sell other things off the website besides glassware, also sell antiques, collectables, and crafts, also recently I had a logo designed for my business and now have it as an LLC type business, one other thing since the holidays are coming around, I get to put holiday things on the website:)
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  Were you afraid of "apostates"?

  by everchangingworld in

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  i remember hearing rumblings of a few that had gone "apostate" and feeling absolute dread of the dark world they had stepped into.

  i would re-double my studying efforts.

  to me, "apostates" had gone over into the "dark side".

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  andys

  I was not afraid of apostates but also avoided them, also they way I thought about apostates and the way it came across from the Watchtower when I was in the borg and hearing people talk about someone going apostate, its almost as if they would talk about the person as if they had a defect, malfuncioned in the brain, to me at the time it came across more as a defectivie machine that went haywire, its so inhumane the way the Watchtower makes a person think, probably one of my most biggest fears was thinking abotu someone going apostate on the platform while giving a talk and then all the elders running up and pulling the person off the stage during a talk.
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  does anyone feel messed up sexually because of being brought up as jw? like you have missed out, etc?

  by johnjones3210 in

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  hiya,.

  i'm new to this forum but just wanted to talk to somebody about this.. i was brought up as a jw and left just over a year ago.

  i'm now 26 and feel messed up sexually.

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  andys

  Also I want to say this to irondork or any gay person on here, even though I am straight, the watchtower society has it so wrong on so many levels of sexualtiy, be it if your are Lesbian, Bi, Gay, or Transgender, they make a person feel so guilty about if they are different or think differently on things, the reason I say that is because my most favorite bar to go to is a gay/straight nightclub in the town where i live, the reason I love going to that bar is because everyone in there is non judgemental, also I love to dance, its almost as if I am addicted to dancing, also since I go to mostly a gay/straight bar I have seen a whole different perspective of Lesbian, Bi, Gay, and Transgender, its a totally different perspective of what the Watchtower teaches and puts a spin to.